Public Health

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! A Life Spent Listening Breakwater Books	A unique and engaging perspective of humanity – a journey to wisdom shared through stories of self-awareness, acceptance, and discovery, by acclaimed psychotherapist Dr. Hassan Khalili. In …	Hassan Khalili	224	2022	View
Basic Income For Canadians From the Covid-19 Emergency to Financial Security for All James Lorimer and Company	Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it was already gaining broad support. Then, in response to a crisis that threatened to put …	Evelyn L. Forget	258	2020	View
NEW! Country of Poxes Three Germs and the Taking of Territory Fernwood Publishing	Country of Poxes is the story of land theft in North America through three diseases: syphilis, smallpox and tuberculosis. These infectious diseases reveal that medical care, widely considered a …	Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay	208	2022	View
Field Excercises How Veterans are Healing Themselves Through Farming and Outdoor Activities New Society Publishers	There are nearly 25 million veterans and active-duty soldiers in North America. Some experts estimate that more than one quarter of these men and women suffer from post-traumatic distress, and …	Stephanie Westlund	242	2014	View
Fighting For Space How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction Arsenal Pulp Press	North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic. While deaths across the continent soar, Travis Lupick’s Fighting for Space explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of …	Travis Lupick	408	2017	View
Health and Wealth How Social and Economic Factors Affect Our Well-Being James Lorimer and Company	This book looks at the well-known link between social equality and the health and well-being of a country’s population, with a Canadian perspective and using Canadian data. As of 1999, when …	Monica Townson	136	1999	View
Medicare Facts, Myths, Problems & Promise James Lorimer and Company	Most health care professionals are committed to the principles of medicare, and so are most other Canadians. Yet everyone recognizes that the health care system has serious problems, and often …	Bruce Campbell; Greg Marchildon		2007	View
Nature-Based Therapy A Practitioner's Guide to Working Outdoors with Children, Youth, and Families New Society Publishers	The number of children, youth, and families seeking help for a wide range of mental health concerns is growing at an alarming rate, and many struggle to thrive despite well-intentioned …	David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper	304	2019	View
Oppression A Social Determinant of Health, 2nd Edition Fernwood Publishing	In this current environment, it is urgent to understand how oppression and health are closely connected. Oppression: A Social Determinant of Health offers a thorough and accessible overview of …	Elizabeth A. McGibbon	264	2021	View
Out Loud Essays on Mental Illness, Stigma & Recovery Breakwater Books	Out Loud is a collection of more than fifty essays by people affected by mental illness. There are essays by those who have experienced mental illness themselves, by family and friends, by …	Ramona Dearing	240	2010	View
Secret Life of Your Microbiome Why Nature and Biodiversity are Essential to Health and Happiness New Society Publishers	The Secret Life of Your Microbiome presents a revolutionary new paradigm, backed by vast science; we’re deeply connected to the biodiversity of nature through our microbiomes — the …	Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott	387	2017	View
NEW! Shadows and Light A Physician's Lens on Covid Goose Lane Editions	When the pandemic began in March 2020, Calgary emergency physician Heather Patterson was already feeling burnt out. Photography had always been a way of unwinding for her, and as the pandemic …	Heather Patterson	176	2022	View
NEW! The Socialist Register 2022 New Polarizations, Old Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism Fernwood Publishing	The 58th annual volume of the Socialist Register takes up the challenge of exploring how the new polarizations relate to the contradictions that underlie them and how far ‘centrist’ …	Colin Leys; Greg Albo; Leo Panitch	352	2021	View
The World After Covid The Munk Dialogues on a Pandemic House of Anansi Press	From the world-renowned Munk Debates comes a collection of dialogues by leading intellectuals envisioning our post-pandemic future. During this time of social distancing, the acclaimed Munk …	Rudyard Griffiths	153	2021	View
From An Introduction to Nature for Therapy From: Nature-Based Therapy Preview New Society Publishers	Promoting a dose of nature clarifies the minimum time exposure people should be outdoors and seeks to highlight the socioecological benefits this natural, accessible, and free health remedy can …	David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper	21	2019	$2.10 Add
From NEW! Foreword From: Country of Poxes Preview Fernwood Publishing	Forward from Dr. Darlene Kitty.	Darlene Kitty	3	2022	$0.30 Add